Old school.
Three over coffee.
It’s coffee alone this morning since it’s Anne’s turn to head for Brooklyn to see granddaughter Lucy and the new grandson, Joey.
I’m bleary eyed since we got in a little late last night after seeing John Prine at the Chicago Theater and I drove Anne to O’Hare at 5:30 this morning. But Peet’s and an egg and cheese bagel will get me through the day, and Prine, a native of nearby Maywood, will get me through a Chicago February.
Everybody’s having fun with Fundrace 2008.
Ever since the Huffington Post put up Fundrace 2008, lots of folks are having fun checking out the data. You can enter a name, address, city, employee or occupation and find out details about presidential and party campaign contributions.
You can find out who your neighbor supports for President, and least if she gave one of them money.
For example, you can find out that the actor Edward Norton gave Obama $2300. Not that Norton is a neighbor. I don’ think he lives in Logan Square. It would be cool if he did.
And Sherman Dorn used it to question the recent dust up over NCLB’s role in the Clinton, Obama contest.
Where are the big ideas?
In this morning’s NY Times, Bob Herbert wants to know if there is going to be any discussion of big ideas in this presidential race?
With the Democrats, we seem obsessed with whether Senator Obama can get his new voters to the polls, and whether Senator Clinton can keep enough cash coming in, and whether there’s an inch or an inch-and-a-half’s worth of difference between their positions on health insurance and the war in Iraq.
Where, in this alleged season of change, is the big idea?
Eduwonkette wraps it up on NCLB
Eduwonkette finishes her critique of NCLB’s unintended outcomes with a well deserved slap at Rotherham.
A wise woman once advised that name-calling is a poor substitute for a good argument. In my view, it is the feeble tool of last resort for desperate men who cannot win arguments on their own merits. It has no rightful place in policy debates.
Took Andy to the shed!
